"Is a novel anything but a trap set…" — Milan Kundera

"Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?"

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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

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More Hero Quotes

This quote is filed under Hero Quotes, one of 2,488 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but… — Arthur Ashe
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
I'm bad at picking heroes. — Margaret Atwood
No hero is mortal till he dies. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. — Kevin Bacon
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long… — John Adams
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's… — Joe Barton
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. — Felix Baumgartner

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